Computer graphics generated by advanced rendering software come to appear so photorealistic that it has become difficult for people to visually differentiate them from photographi...
Irregular applications frequently exhibit poor performance on contemporary computer architectures, in large part because of their inefficient use of the memory hierarchy. Runtime ...
Extant Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) systems are very complex softwares, which embed multiple layers of heuristics and embark very large numbers of numerical parameters. A...
In today’s continuously changing markets newly developed products often do not meet the demands and expectations of customers. Research on this problem identified a large gap b...
We consider scheduling problems in which a job consists of components of different types to be processed on m machines. Each machine is capable of processing components of a singl...